Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Location inside Tulsa County, and the state of Oklahoma Broken Arrow, Oklahoma is positioned in the US Broken Arrow, Oklahoma - Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Website City of Broken Arrow Broken Arrow is a town/city located in the northeastern part of the U.S.
State of Oklahoma, primarily in Tulsa County but also with a section of the town/city in Wagoner County.
According to the 2010 census, Broken Arrow has a populace of 98,850 inhabitants and is the fourth-largest town/city in the state. However, a July 1, 2015, estimate reports that the populace of the town/city is 106,563, making it the 280th-largest town/city in the United States.
The town/city is part of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, which has a populace of 961,561 residents.
Fears titled it Broken Arrow. The town/city was titled for a Creek improve settled by Creek Indians who had been forced to relocate from Alabama to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears.
Although Broken Arrow was originally an agricultural community, its current economy is diverse .
The city's name comes from an old Creek improve in Alabama. Members of that improve were expelled from Alabama by the United States government, along the Trail of Tears in the 1830s.
The town's Creek name was Rekackv (pronounced thlee-Kawtch-kuh), meaning broken arrow.
The new Creek settlement was positioned several miles south of present-day downtown Broken Arrow.
He chose a site about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Tulsa and about five miles north of the thlee-Kawtch-kuh settlement and titled the new town site Broken Arrow, after the Indian settlement.
The city's newspaper, the Broken Arrow Ledger, started inside a couple of years after the city's founding.
Broken Arrow's first school was assembled in 1904. The town/city did not expanded much amid the first half of the 1900s.
During this time Broken Arrow's chief commercial center was along Main Street.
A 1907 government census listed Broken Arrow's populace at 1383. The Haskell State School of Agriculture opened in the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Opera House on November 15, 1909.
The school closed in 1917 for lack of funding, and the building was then used as Broken Arrow High School.
The building was razed in 1987. Only a marker, shown here, remains at 808 East College Street in Broken Arrow.
In the 1960s, Broken Arrow began to expanded from a small town into a suburban city.
The Broken Arrow Expressway (Oklahoma State Highway 51) was constructed in the mid-1960s and connected the town/city with downtown Tulsa, fueling expansion in Broken Arrow.
In recent years, town/city leaders have pushed for more economic evolution to help keep more Broken Arrowans working, shopping and relaxing in town clean water going to other cities.
Broken Arrow is positioned in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 45.6 square miles (118 km2), of which 45.0 sq mi (117 km2) is territory and 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km2) of it (1.34%) is water.
Broken Arrow has the typical easterly and central Oklahoma humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa) with uncomfortably hot summers and highly variable winters that can range from very warm to very cold depending on whether the air mass comes from warmed air over the Rocky Mountains or very cold polar anticyclones from Canada.
Climate data for Broken Arrow, Oklahoma A 2007 crime survey by CQ Press found Broken Arrow to be the 22nd-safest town/city in the country and the safest town/city in Oklahoma.
Broken Arrow was listed as #66 and #69, in the order given, in Money Magazine's 2006 and 2012 list of the 100 best places to live. Broken Arrow was listed as one of the "Top 25 Affordable Suburbs in the South" by Business Week Magazine in 2007.
The Pride of Broken Arrow marching band won 1st place in the Bands of America Grand Nationals championship at Indianapolis in 2006, 2011, and 2015.
Broken Arrow has been listed as a "Tree City USA" for over 6 years in a row.
Broken Arrow's new logo received an Award of Merit from the Public Relations Society of America - Tulsa Chapter in 2008.
Broken Arrow's branding campaign received the 2008 Innovations Award from the Oklahoma Municipal League.
Family Circle Magazine featured Broken Arrow as one of the 10 best suburbs for families in 2008. Broken Arrow is home to a wide range of businesses and industries.
Located in Broken Arrow since 1985, Flight - Safety International (FSI) designs and builds aviation crew training devices called Flight Simulators at its Simulation Systems Division.
A number of new commercial developments are being assembled throughout the city, most prominently along Oklahoma State Highway 51, which runs through the city.
In 2007 the town/city created the Broken Arrow Economic Development Corporation to help oversee economic development. In late 2007, the Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce began "Advance Broken Arrow", an economic evolution campaign aimed at expanding and diversifying the city's economic base. In 2005, the town/city adopted a downtown revitalization master plan to help revive the city's historic downtown area.
Some of the plans include a new 3-story exhibition to home the historical society and genealogical society, a farmer's market and plaza, a new performing arts center, updates and expansions to region parks, the conversion of the historic Central Middle School on Main Street into a experienced evolution center, transit framework and landscape improvements, and incentives to encourage denser infill, redevelopment, and reuse of the area's historic structures.
The town/city also set strict new design standards in place that all new developments in the downtown region must adhere to.
In October 2012 Downtown Broken Arrow's chief street corridor was titled the Rose District. Broken Arrow uses the council-manager model of municipal government.
The city's major authority resides in the town/city council which approves ordinances, resolutions, and contracts.
The town/city council consists of five members with four members are propel from the four town/city wards with the fifth member as an at-large member.
Out of the council members, a mayor and vice-mayor is chosen every two years. The day-to-day operations of the town/city is run by the town/city manager who reports directly to the town/city council. At the federal level, Broken Arrow lies inside Oklahoma's 1st congressional district, represented by Jim Bridenstine. In the State Senate, Broken Arrow is in District 25 (Mike Mazzei) and 36 (Bill Brown). In the House, District 75 (Dan Kirby), 76 (David Brumbaugh), 98 (John Trebilcock) covers the city. Education in Broken Arrow is provided by Broken Arrow Public Schools.
The precinct operates twenty-five schools with fifteen elementary schools, five middle schools, and five secondary schools. A portion of Broken Arrow is also served by Union Public Schools. Higher education in Broken Arrow is provided by Northeastern State University (Broken Arrow campus).
Broken Arrow is also served by Tulsa Technology Center Broken Arrow Campus.
Broken Arrow is also home to Rhema Bible Training Center, established in 1974 by Kenneth E.
The city's two libraries, Broken Arrow Library and South Broken Arrow Library, are part of the Tulsa City-County Library System.
Major highways in Broken Arrow include State Highway 51 (Broken Arrow Expressway).
Heading east on the Broken Arrow Expressway leads to the Muskogee Turnpike, which joins the town/city to Muskogee. Partial beltway, Creek Turnpike circles around the south of the town/city and joins the Turner Turnpike to the west end of the Will Rogers Turnpike. Public transit for Broken Arrow is provided by Tulsa Transit.
See also: List of newspapers in Oklahoma, List of airways broadcasts in Oklahoma, and List of tv stations in Oklahoma Broken Arrow has one newspaper, the Broken Arrow Ledger.
The paper is presented every Wednesday. It is owned by BH Media Group. The Tulsa World, northeast Oklahoma's primary daily newspaper, also features Broken Arrow news regularly.
Cox Cable channel 24 is the Broken Arrow government-access tv (GATV) cable TV municipal knowledge channel.
It displays, among other things, knowledge about the town/city government, upcoming affairs, and general knowledge about the city.
Broken Arrow has a website that provides knowledge on the city, its government, small-town amenities, safety, small-town news, and economic development. The city's chamber of commerce also has a website, which contains knowledge about the chamber and economic evolution in the city. David Alexander, former NFL player and current head coach of Broken Arrow High School football team Marguerite Churchill, actress, died in Broken Arrow Warren Spahn, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher and longtime Broken Arrow resident Broken Arrow killings a b "History of Broken Arrow, OK".
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